20 on the footpatho Because the Bridge was a place we sometimes went to glimpse the full dance of life, we are aroused and full of a deep hurt at thus being cut off. \Valking will soon be illegal everywhere. Bridge vehicular traffic will soon be completely dead- locked. Long Island will be a case of swimming or not at all. Golden Apples S OLOMON'S gold, or some of it, the Inca's gold, a great deal of the gold that has for these many centunes caused happiness and woe, is righ there in New York now, under the Federal Reserve Bank, which takes up the block bounded by Nassau and \Villiam Streets, Maiden Lane and Liberty. It is the biggest treasure store in the city, which is to say in the world. In value it totalled about a billion dollars at the close of bus ness Monday. All of it is now in the custody of Colonel Hiram Iddings Bearss, D.S.C., D.S.Y1., U. S. Marine Corps, retired, otherwise "Hikem Hiram," under which denomi- nation he became pretty well known before the war, and better known during it. He was noted for laying out long, preposterous marches for his troops and then riding up and down the column making them hustle. He must see that nobody steals the gold. The treasure is kept in three tiers of vaults beneath the street level, beneath tidewater too, to make tunnelling diffi- cult. There, under Bearss, a hundred ex-service men, many of them known personally to the Colonel, are on duty, all expert with the rifle, the revolver, and the machine gun. He runs the place like a garrison. His office is exactly like a military headquarters ex- cept that he has a girl secretary. Peace has done that. A platoon of men is constantly on post at the vaults, vig- ilantly watching them and peering into mirrors which are arranged in a com- plicated manner to show any activity anywhere in the place. The most "responsible job is getting the gold in and out. The armored trucks pull into an alleyway which cuts into the bank, like an estuary, from Maide n Lane. In the walls are omi- nous slits through which Bearss' soldiers peer over rifle barrels. Nobody h s ever tried anything desperate in this sector. It's like Gibraltar. T HE Colonel is now fifty-four. He is a great disciplinarian) and OCTOBER 1 , I 9 2, c:J roars, but has a sense of humor. He stairs with pianos and refectory tables has always been considered tough, in on their backs; everything had been the better meaning of the word. He stowed safely; and it was time for the attended military school in Vermunt men tu go. Just as the lady was ahout and there, although weighing only a to sink into the nearest chair for a hundred and thirty-eight, made the comfortable sigh, the head man of the football tean1. crew turned in Later he P laved onl . the doorwa y, re- hl i: l :; " { i (;1... . ..' (' \1 :: :: mont, against a , 'Cf. ^. /ì .'. :'i :if.l: I .": ::, speech of welcome team from Bur- ....::: \i!, t I '.-- ': ','" ,( which included lington made up of ::.ti,\,.' t :,.... { felicitations on ; e :: ;i :: it;}? : l' i:r i J ;;;d0e :ae;n: '., :i:!-i:-f.:;ii . '_y f- : :nfi ; i:1! : r:::: .;';;2Jr ' J f !.;n ? if ;:: ;: e :m! ;I :: 'i :;; , " : L: : ! : lieutenant in the trifle studied; she Marines and since has soldiered allover is inclined to think the fellow was just the world. In 1914, when the Marines ' a bit out of breath. landed in Vera Cruz, Bearss was already there, having quietly en.tered the city Bean Rampa'tlt alone a few days before to study the ground. He took command of his battal- ion and by his knowledge of the CIty made its capture possible with a minimum loss of life. For this he got the Distinguished Service Medal. Like all soldiers, he is prouder of his Distinguished Service Cross. This is awarded for valor in ac- tion. Bearss got his at Château Thierry. General Harbord wanted a German prisoner .:lnd asked the Colonel to get him one. This is the grimmest order '-' a soldier can receive. f 1 ide "Journey's End." General Harbord said he would give the Colonel a seven days' leave if he brought in a German. "I'll '-' get you two and take fourteen days," Bearss told him. That night some of his men saw him walking nonchalantly into No Man's Land, alone. Four or fi ve of them insisted on going with him. '-' '-' They encountered an enemy sCout patrol and a short, bloody action fol- lowed. Shortly after this, the light of star shells revealed Bearss headed for his own lines dragging two Germans by the neck, one in each hand. TifT elcome T HE October business of movIng from one a partmen t to another apartment was made less gruesome for one lady bv an incident that occurred after the ordeal was virtually over. The movers had puffed up the long F ADS have far-reaching and fre- quently cruel effects. Birds of plumage and monkeys are slain, and humans suffer too. Woman whim- sically decided to bob her hair, stopped buying hairnets, and the inhabitants of the Chinese village which had the monopoly of making these practically starved to death. It is not generally known, but the Mexican-jumping-bean craze of last year threatened to fade out, leaving a good many earnest saffron-farmers below the Rio Grande in a pretty fix; not to mention a group of energetic jobbers up here. The situation has been saved, however. A resourceful novel ty man was called in and, after thinking awhile, he brought forth the Mexican- jumping-bean-race-course game which is now having a vogue not only in the city but all over the coun- try. Everybody is happy again, in- chIding the players, who get quite excited racing the little jumpers, if they are in fettle. If they aren't in fettle, this can be fixed. There's a trick to it which we have from a fel- low who has done well wagering on the game. A bean can be greatly stim.. ulated by a bric;k rubdown between the palms, just before the start. Also, holding it under a light bulb is effective, '-' '-' but likely to cause arguments. No big idea seems to lie behind the '-'